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Images of Bergen @bergenpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Everyday 1950s #Bergen shot. Not sure what the barricades are for.

Photo by Gustav Brosing, University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-bros-01344.html
#norway #Norge #norskpix #historical #

A black and white photo of a 1950s Bergen cityscape. Striped wooden(?) barricades block the road, but a man, a kid on a tricycle and a woman is walking between them. A bus in the background.

Images of Bergen @bergenpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Picture yourself as the "umarell", the guy looking at the USS Skate with his hands behind his back.

Considering my last #submarine was the all-time most liked image of this channel, here is another one! This one, a bit later, but it does actually have a […]

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A black and white image of an American submarine docked in a Bergen fjord. In the background, mountains and the Puddefjord bridge.

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Images of Bergen @bergenpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Corps de Garde (guard house) is a former civilian armament base, firehouse, hospital for children, and vicarage. It also has a great view of the #Bergen harbour – second image.

Photo by Unknown, and Ralph Wilson, via University of Bergen Library […]

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A black and white image of an old white plastered brick tower. In the foreground, two people.

A black and white image of a view over the Bergen harbour. Bergenhus fortress, Rosenkrantz tower, and ships in the bay. In the background, mountains.

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Images of Bergen @bergenpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

The Nordnes-Torvet #tram in Strandgaten in 1927. Fourth of four lines at that time, which – at slightly different route stops – ran from 1915 to 1944. Behind it is the second line, that ran to Haukeland hospital, outside the city centre.

World War II and the […]

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A black and white photo of two tram streetcars going from left to right in a Bergen cityscape. Passengers aboard, and a conductor staring towards the camera.

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Images of Bergen @bergenpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

The #submarine Nautilus left #Bergen in early August 1931, drawing crowds of locals who watched the refurbished US military submarine steam toward the open sea, on a voyage to #svalbard with goal up going under the North pole ice to #alaska.

The crew – […]

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A black and white photo of a 1910s submarine, the Nautilus, docked up in Bergen.

A black and white photo of a 1910s submarine, the Nautilus, docked up in Bergen, being stocked with chocolate.

A black and white photo of three of the crew – wearing suits and hats – of the 1910s submarine, the Nautilus, docked up in Bergen.

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Images of Bergen @bergenpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

2 fast 2 photograph!

A biker speedfreak going down steep Claus Frimann's street in 1961.

Photo by Gustav Brosing, via University of #Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-bros-01073.html
#norway #Norge #norskpix #historical #blackandwhitephotography

A black and white photo of a steep Bergen street with wooden and plaster houses, gas street lights and trees. Centrally in the photo, a slightly blurred child on a tricycle, going fast.

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Images of Bergen @bergenpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Oh no! I just found out that I missed the 106th anniversary of the Norwegian Canned Food Manufacturers Association General Meeting in Bergen in 1919.

Sorry, it won't happen again!

They gathered on a trip to #Fløistuen on the top of Mount Fløyen, which since […]

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A black and white photo of four dozen serious men in hats and long coats, most with umbrellas, gathered on the stairs to an old wooden lodge.

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Images of Bergen @bergenpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Almost the same position as yesterdays image, but around 40 years earlier – 1910.

The Monclair House, while it was the municipal #Bergen school where women were taught the duties of house keeping, and not shaded by a large bridge like it would be some […]

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A black and white image of a white wooden house surrounded by a garden and fences. Late 1890s multistory buildings in the background. Over the park in the background you see a glimpse of the St Johns Church in Bergen.

Images of Bergen @bergenpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Look how close those support columns are to the walls!

When the Puddefjord #bridge was done in 1956, it kept one of its neighbours very close. The Monclair house, for some weird reason also called "the house under the bridge", still stands here, as it has […]

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A black and white image of a bridge and a tall office building. In the shadow underneath the bridge, between the concrete supports, an old 1700s wooden building.

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Images of Bergen @bergenpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

These guys are pro at pellers – ship builders in a #Bergen wharf in 1955.

Photo by Norvin Reklamefoto, via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-nor-m-0650.html
#norway #Norge #norskpix #historical #blackandwhitephotography

A black and white image of two ship builders next to a large propeller, around 4 meters in diameter.

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Images of Bergen @bergenpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d

If you were in need of a washing machine or a fridge in 1955, you could do worse than Roald Carlsen A/S. They had a store in Nygårdsgaten, on the corner towards where Grieghallen would later be built. This, I think, is some form of trade fair.

Photo by […]

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Three women standing in a trade booth under the sign "Roald Carlsen A/S", with washing machines and fridges and other appliances.

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Images of Bergen @bergenpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

If you want to travel in style, you have to book tickets in style. And around 1931, there was no place better than at the #Bergen #Train station traveller's office!

Photo by Atelier KK, via University of Bergen Library […]

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A black and white photo of a mahogany-rich ticket office at the Bergen train station. A man is sitting behind the counter at his desk, no one in the waiting room.

A black and white photo of a mahogany-rich ticket office at the Bergen train station. No people there.

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Images of Bergen @bergenpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d

No, these women are not showing off a hairy alien baby. Likely – at least according to the metadata – it's a dog that won't stay still enough for 1910 shutter speeds to capture.

Photo by Amy Wilson, via University of Bergen Library […]

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Five young women in early 1900s long skirts and white blouses, one of them holding a small black dog. House wall and columns in the background.

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Images of Bergen @bergenpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 14d

Since 1894, an electrical boat named #beffen has been scooting across the Vågen bay in the city center of #Bergen. Here it is in the early 00s, 1900s, that is, with Bergenhus Fortress in the background.

In the beginning, there were fire small ferries in six […]

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A black and white image of a small ferry running across a bay. On the other side of the water, a stone fortress, and ships along the quays. In the background, mountains.

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Images of Bergen @bergenpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 16d

In a library mood.

Here are some 60s photos to put some broth in your Tuesday soup. The University Library building (today, the humanities library) was done in 1961, and students flocked to it for silence, comfort, and space to study, read, and whatever […]

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A long line of students outside the library at 0830 in the morning, stairs at the end of a large rectangular portal.

A student in a study space, a desk by vertical slit windows, in-between bookshelves, sunlight coming in from outside.

A student reading at the magazine department of the library, a half moon table with chairs around it, seen from above.

The clerks of the library talking at their desks, a long wooden counter in a library room.

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Images of Bergen @bergenpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 17d

Yes, the bassist in the band photo should always stare at something out of frame.

Photo of the Knoop family, sometime around the turn of the century.

Photo by Knoop, via University of #Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-knoop-200.html

Black and white image of a Norwegian family in the mountains. In the background, a dog.

Images of Bergen @bergenpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 17d

Ah, yes, back in the time before the Friday taco, when all Norwegian families gathered in their #bunad around the fireplace for the latest in goathorn metal.

This is from "Fana Folklore", a guided annual experience on Norwegian culture, catering towards […]

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In front of a large fireplace sits a gathering of young people in Norwegian folk costume bunad, looking at a young boy playing some form of horn. On his left, an old man with a Norwegian folk fiddle.

Images of Bergen @bergenpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 20d

Strandgaten (Beach Street) in early 1900s #Bergen. Nykirken (The New #church) to the right.

The man on the left is a city #original called "Styggepappen" – meaning something like "ugly dad" – likely born Lehmkuhl from a nice family. He used to do speeches […]

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A black adn white photo of a Bergen cityscape. Wooden houses on the left, a white church in the background. People walking on the sidewalk. Carriages and horses in the street.

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Images of Bergen @bergenpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 21d

Felt churchy – might delete later.

Solheim Chapel in the late 30s, in the middle of Solheim graveyard in #Bergen. Built in 1920 in white plastered brick, with a granite portal. Drawn by architect Sigurd Lunde.

Photo by Atelier KK, via UNiversity of Bergen […]

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Black and white image of a white chapel on a hillside among trees. In the foreground, a graveyard of white gravestones.

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Images of Bergen @bergenpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 21d

The little #Train that could. Until it couldn't – specifically on the day this photo was taken, the last day of the Nesttun-Os Line in 1935.

As the first private railway in Norway, the narrow gauge line operated from 1894 going between Nesttun (now a part of […]

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A black and white photo of a black steam locomotive running along a curve of the Nesttun-Os Line.

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Images of Bergen @bergenpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 23d

Work it.

A group, likely from the Norwegian Worker's Youth League, sometime in the late 20s, celebrating workers. The posters read "Norway for the youth", "To Victory", "Power to the Labour Party", and over the stage reads "Solidarity is our strength".

From […]

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A black and white image of a stage with young people, wearing white and with a black hammer on their chest, doing some form of choir choreography around a large white hammer.

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Images of Bergen @bergenpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 27d

A hot date in around the turn of the century in Olav Kyrres gate, likely just next ot the city park. The steeple far off in the background is Korskirken (Holy Cross Church).

Photo via University of #Bergen Library […]

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A black and white photo of a man and woman, both nicely dressed, walking along a street and smiling to the camera.

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Images of Bergen @bergenpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 28d

The trolleybus – buses running on overhead power lines – has been a staple of the #Bergen cityscape since 1950, with its latest update in 2020 with in-motion charging for battery buses.

It is the last trolleybus lines in Norway, and one of the few remaining […]

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A black and white image of a trolleybus going up a left-hand turn hill in Helgesens gate in Bergen.

A black and white image of a group of men in hats and coats sitting on a bus.

A black and white image of a trolleybus going in front of Bryggen in Bergen.

A black and white image of a trolleybus driving through a puddle in Bergen.

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Images of Bergen @bergenpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 29d

Yesterday was the Norwegian general #elections, so here are some officials in 1951, hard at work counting the votes of the municipal elections in #Bergen.

Photo by Edwood Christensen, via University of Bergen Library […]

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A black and white photo of people sitting around tables, with pieces of papers, votes for the election.

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Images of Bergen @bergenpix.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 7

This view is still quite similar to what it was when this picture was taken, in 1950.

The #christie statue, of a #Bergen city council member, a county governor, a representative in Norway's first constituent assembly, a parliament member for decades, is […]

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A black and white image of the Natural History University Museum of Bergen. On the plaza in front of it, a statue of a male figure on a pedestal, and a guarding lion resting.